Faucet.



A. B. RONEY.

FAUCET.

APPLlCATlON FILED JUNE 11. I918.

Patented Nov. 26,1918.

ALEXANDER B. RONEY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

FAUGET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 26, 1918.

Application filed June 17, 1918. Serial No. 240,497.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALEXANDER B. RoNEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented new and useful Improvements in Faucets, of which the following is a specification.

The object embraces in a faucet casing, a valve part seatable with the pressure, the same being accessible and operative in a straight line by a top mounted push and pull handle that is protected against leakage by a special contrivance hereinafter set forth and specified.

Figure 1, is a side outline view of the faucet proper.

Fig. 2, is a longitudinal section of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3, is a cross section of Fig. 1, on line A.-A.

The faucet proper comprises the shank piece 1, the detachable spout 2, the coupling nut 3, the valve 4, the valve stem 5, provided with the choke washer 6, and pivoted to the slidable shoe piece 7, provided, with the thrust spring 8, which is adapted to keep the shoe in bearing contact upward against the bearing surface 9, internal of the spout part 2, which surrounds the slotted opening 10. Through this opening the short arm of the handle lever 11 projects into the interior of the shoe so as to engage the shoulders 12, 12, but the handle lever is mounted outside the spout between a pair of lugs that project up from the saddle piece 13, that is fastened to the spout by set screws 14, 14.

Now when the coupling collar 15 and the valve seat 16. parts of the spout, are being machined up and bored out, the reamer by means of which the seat is bored is likewise used during the same operation for boring the shoe and spring bearing portions of the spout, these bearings are diametrically disposed in the spout to balance the cutting edges of the reamer to insure a true and smooth job of boring, and the saddle piece 13, is made attachable to the spout in order that the coupling nut 3 can be slipped over the spout 2, on being assembled to the shank.

Now when the valve 4: is opened by the handle 11, none of the flowing water through the spout canleak out around said handle because the shoe 7, urged by the spring 8, has a slidable water tight fit all around the slotted opening 10, through which thehandle swings in moving the shoe for opening and closing the valve.

I claim: I

1. In a faucet, a slotted opening through the Wall of the spout, a slidable shoe covering said opening, a spring holding the shoe seated on said wall, a valve seatable with the pressure pivoted to said shoe, and a handle lever fulcrumed exterior of the spout hfitVlng its shorter arm engageable with said s oe.

2. A faucet casing,comprising a shank, a coupling nut and a spout, a slotted opening through the wall of the spout, a slidable shoe covering said opening, a spring holding the shoe seated on said wall, a valve seatable with the pressure pivoted to said shoe, and a handle lever fulcrumed exterior of the spout and having its shorter arm engageable with said shoe.

ALEXANDER B. RONEY.

Witnesses:

MILDRED R. PYKE, ELIZABETH H. FoRHAN.

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